Sargent is a Morningside College alum who only got started with creating his own art during his freshman year. He says he got his drive for creating when he painted a couch with professor John Bowitz. One of Sargent’s creations was donated to Morningside and is still on campus: the wooden ‘M’ hanging on the wall outside of Eppley’s Art Gallery.

In regards to what professor Bowitz has to say about Sargent when he was a student here and discovering his artistry: “He was a good student and cool to collaborate with”.

Student Rachel Masias is the only student currently in Sargent’s Sculpture 2 class, and the reason she enjoys being in the class is because “He makes you appreciate art and sculpture more than before and changes your outlook on it”.

Sargent’s inspiration comes from two things: those around him and Jesus Christ. He says that just being able to interact with his previous mentor and other teachers is inspiring, but overall his inspiration is from Jesus.

Sargent says his art is to “try and glorify God and it’s, it’s interesting because that’s why I use a lot of colors and it’s very bright and it’s kid friendly and it’s hopefully happy.” Sargent continues in saying that he wants his works to be intellectually stimulating while at the same time still being fun, exciting, and glorifying to God.

Sargent is creating his next piece to be interactive, for people to want to touch them and be able to move the pieces around the house, take them down, be double sided, and overall just be pleasant to look at while in use. This follows his interactive art piece he installed for the Alumni Art Show that had just taken place this past November.

This week: E-Sports on a local college campus, college students and drinking habits, and student stress.

Story 1:

Local school Morningside College recently added E-Sports to the Athletic Teams Roster.

In the Fall semester of 2016, a group of students interested in the E-sports team helped start it off by spending a day building gaming computers in what is now known as the ‘Nexus’. Fall semester of 2017 kicked off the first year of competition participation.

E-Sports team faculty manager, Dean Stevens, started off the team with two of the most competitive games currently on the market: Overwatch by Blizzard Entertainment and League of Legends by Riot Games.

Dean Stevens: “Overwatch is the new kid on the block, and League of Legends kind of started the mainstream competitive gaming industry.”

As more competitive games are released, Stevens hopes to add more to their roster and increase the amount of students who can try-out for a spot on the team and a scholarship.

Story 2:

College students and drinking are a stereotype that go hand in hand, but why?

The University of Minnesota’s Department of Family Social Science created a “Seminar for Parents” about alcohol on campus.

Complete with a graph in the beginning of the article, U of M’s page tells how drinking usually starts in high school, but they really get going after entering college. U of M also tells that while parents don’t know about the drinking habits of their children and the University doesn’t screen for it, every year comes with freshman who have had some kind of drinking problem.

The University of Minnesota also shows reasons why students feel compelled to drink, ranging from just breaking the ice and being social, to having more fun and influencing how people look or food tastes.

Anna Heath, a transfer student to Morningside College, had this to say about such young students drinking after entering college: “Like, I get it. It’s to be social and have fun, but they shouldn’t be drinking so young”.

Student stress is on the rise as teachers expect more from their students each year.

High schoolers think they feel stressed as they start getting ready to take the major tests as they try to get accepted into colleges of their choice. After getting the acceptance letter, it only gets worse.

Foxbusiness.com’s Emily Driscoll wrote an article explaining why college is stressful and how students can relieve that stress.

Driscoll says it’s mainly the significant adjustments to the students’ schedules, forcing them to start feeling more self-reliant. Getting the perfect balance between school and personal life takes a lot of time and experimenting before finally getting it right.

In order to relieve the stress, there are various techniques that might work for some but not others. Two of the main techniques are exercising and keeping yourself organized.

Morningside College nurse Carol Garvey had this to say about the stress: “A little bit of stress is a good thing, but when you’re curled up in fetal position, you need to make a change. Exercise is definitely a good way to decrease it”.

This morning at 9:54 a.m., we received news of an explosion occurring at Mega City Mall.

Sgt. Fuglsang, head of MCPD, gave a press conference about the explosion, giving details that it occurred near the food court and investigation is underway.

At this point in time, there has been no discovered cause and Sgt. Fuglsang also says “There has been no claim to the explosion and there is no indication that there will be further incidents.”

The police report released to the public states that the number of injuries is currently less than 100 people, with additional reports coming from St. Mercy and Jean-Luc hospitals about the injuries and conditions of those who were at the mall at the time of the explosion.

An employee at Barnes & Noble’s Starbucks, Dylan, was preparing the store for opening at the time of the explosion. He says he “heard a bang and thought something had fallen until people started screaming.” He received no injuries.

Reiley Mahon, a nurse on a day off, was shopping at Victoria’s Secret at the time of the explosion. After hearing the explosion, she took cover and also used her training to check the condition of the VS saleswoman who was also in the store. The extent of her injuries are cuts, bruises, and a little bit of smoke inhalation, but she plans on going to work and helping the staff with the injured.

Another eyewitness was Elliott, a Junior in High School. He was in the vicinity of the food court at the time of the explosion, but luckily only received some cuts from the shrapnel and some hearing difficulties.

Sgt. Fuglsang told the Press there will be another press conference today at 3 p.m. with additional information on the explosion.

Shannon Sargent is not only the Sculpture professor at Morningside College, but he is also an artist.

Sargent is a Morningside College alum who only got started with creating his own art during his freshman year here. He says he got his drive for creating when he painted a couch with another professor here, John Bowitz. One of Sargent’s creations was donated to Morningside and is still on campus: the wooden ‘M’ hanging on the wall outside of Eppley’s Art Gallery.

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Student Rachel Masias is the only student currently in Sargent’s Sculpture 2 class, and the reason she enjoys being in the class is [quote].

Sargent’s inspiration comes from two things: those around him and Jesus Christ. He says that just being able to interact with his previous mentor and other teachers is inspiring, but overall his inspiration is from Jesus.

Sargent says his art is to “try and glorify God and it’s, it’s interesting because that’s why I use a lot of colors and it’s very bright and it’s kid friendly and it’s hopefully happy.” Sargent continues in saying that he wants his works to be intellectually stimulating while at the same time still being fun, exciting, and glorifying to God.

Sargent is creating his next piece to be interactive, for people to want to touch them and be able to move the pieces around the house, take them down, be double sided, and overall just be pleasant to look at while in use. This follows his interactive art piece he installed for the Alumni Art Show that had just taken place this past November.

Steven Cuton has been chosen as Willy Loman, the starring role in Morningside College’s telling of Death of a Salesman.

Those who knew Cuton before college might be surprised at this information, but Cuton only started acting his freshman year at Morningside. From small town Colo, IA to a big time role, Cuton is making his way in the acting industry.

His inspiration comes from his father who, Cuton says, acted when he was younger and encouraged his son to do it. Cuton was also encouraged by his friends in the acting community to start embracing the acting bug.

Steven Cuton auditioned for the role because he “felt Willy’s personality matched my own”. From this role he hopes to get good experience.

Marcus Mackey uses the word “tolerant” to describe himself. When it comes to why he chose this word, it has to do with a person in a friend group who brought even the most tolerant to their breaking point.

Mackey met this person his freshman year through his roommate and friend. For the rest of freshman and even into his sophomore year, they socialized and were even in the same friend group, but they themselves weren’t the most friendly.

This person would constantly be complaining, whining, and blaming others for things he wanted done, but got angry when they wouldn’t go his way. One such story has to do with a reason Marcus can’t remember because it was “something stupid”. This person created a problem and then started to blame the incident on the people in his supposed ‘friend group’. He even continued to complain and blame long after the conclusion of the incident.

The only reason Mackey put up with this person for so long and without too much complaint was because his friend was a mutual friend with this person and he didn’t want to cause trouble within their group, hence being “tolerant”.

In the article “America is facing an epistemic crisis” by David Roberts, the subtitle is about Mueller and his court case. However, he doesn’t get to that point until halfway through the article.

Instead, he starts by talking about protests at Mike Cernovich’s speech at Columbia University and “crazy conservative fairy tales”.

When Roberts does finally talk about the Mueller case, he talks about possibilities that might happen after evidence is found.

Then he gets into what the title of the article is about: an “epistemic breach”.

Roberts describes epistemiology and how it is affecting America right now, then continuing about how Mueller’s case is affecting this crisis. Then he continues with what might happen if nothing happens at all.

Overall, this article is very unprofessional, though he does exercise good possibilities of different outcomes. What confuses me, however, is that this article seems more like an opinion, but isn’t actually labeled opinion.

Broadcast Lede: Emma Watson gave a special speech to the young activists of the world yesterday at the One Young World Convention in Ottawa, Canada.

Print Story: Emma Watson, known for both her roles in the Harry Potter movies and her feminist activist movements, inspired people from around the globe at the One Young World Convention in Ottawa, Canada.

She told her own life story after becoming the face of activism and the difficulties she faces because of it. However, that was just a starting point for her speech.

Watson’s speech was an introduction to the first scholarship winners from One Young World and emphasized the importance of the different activist movements, including gender equality. She refers to the different forms of feminist activism movements as “an unstoppable current” that come from combining various backgrounds and identities.

The One Young World Convention is an organization to bring young leaders from around the world together and participate in debates while sharing ideas and solutions for world problems.

About One Young World, Watson said it “isn’t about what I, each of us individually, can do, but what we can do, working together, supporting and listening to each other.”

The day after Richard and Laurette Brunson’s wedding, Richard shot Laurette in the abdomen.

A neighbor, Walter Corse, said “I heard the sound of the shot, or I think I did. It was kind of a pop, pop, pop.” He then says one of Laurette’s three children came out of the house, yelling that she had been shot and can’t breathe.

Sgt. Mann, a police spokesman, tells reporters “the shooting occurred at 5 p.m. It happened after she threw a plate of wedding reception macaroni salad at him. His whereabouts are still unknown.”

Laurette is in the hospital and had no comment on the situation. Officials say she is “in satisfactory condition”.

A loud chirp and a large shockwave disrupt our universe, finally answering questions astronomers have been wondering for years.

In the past week, thousands of astronomers, such as those involved with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, announced their findings from a collision between two dead stars in the Hydra constellation that occurred in August.

New York Times’s Dennis Overbye reports that the astronomers, many a part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration who studies gravitational waves, say the collision has answered the question of where the more dense materials of the universe, such as gold, silver, and uranium, come from.

The amount of matter in each of the stars, known as neutron stars, and their collision into each other created an explosion of gamma rays, X-rays, radio waves, and even a cloud of gold dust.

The astronomers are unsure of the remains of the collision, thinking of three possibilities: turning into a black hole, creating a bigger star that vanished, or staying in the spot of collision as another neutron star.